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    ‘The CrucibleCharacter Analysis- Abigail Williams In the play ‘The Crucible’ by Arthur Miller‚ the author uses characters from the 17th century witch-hunts to show the corruption behind McCarthyism. The play was published in 1953‚ a time when McCarthyism was actively affecting and contributing to society. The book is filled with false accusations during 1692‚ in order to relate to the time period it was released. In the play‚ the character Abigail Williams is in love with John Proctor‚ a married

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    The Crucible‚ by Arthur Miller is a play accounting for the tragic events of 1692 in Salem Village. Most people were Puritans‚ who believed it was against the law not to attend church. The devastating events which took place in Salem Village are known as “The Salem Witch Trials”. These Witch Trials caused many people to be accused of witchcraft and well over a dozen to be executed. The source of all this social disruption‚ was when many girls and Reverend Parris’s slave Tituba were caught dancing

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    The Crucible “The Crucible” is a thought provoking play written by Arthur Miller and is about the hysteria that witchcraft caused to the town Salem is the 1950’s. The hysteria begins from when the girls were caught using witchcraft by dancing in the forest and this resulted in the intensive plot. Throughout the play‚ there are a lot of conflicting personalities which create tension and anxiety for others in the play as well as the reader. However the main conflict which is highly evident is between

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    William Ellison “The Crucible” prompted #3 9-26-14 In the story “The Crucible” there is not many characters. Yet still there is a lot of depth to each character. This play is an allegory and a crucible starring the good farmer John Proctor. This is his story of dealing with the Salem witch trials. This essay will be on prompt number three. The first female character in this story we really get to learn about as well meet is Abigail Williams. Abigail is a young 17 year old girl who used to work

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    English 11 14 November 2013 Abigail’s Envy Throughout The Crucible there are good characters‚ bad characters and the characters who do not take action when action is required. Of these characters‚ close to all of them embodies one of the seven deadly sins. Of each of the seven‚ there is always one character that is the worst sinner of that particular vice. There are seven deadly sins but out of the seven there are two in particular that drives this play the most. In control of these sins is Abigail

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    that occurred in the history of man kind 3.6 billions of people died in the wars There were only 100 years without war in the whole history of human civilization! Iraq and Kuwait had had a long standing‚ but low level‚ border dispute over a pair of Persian Gulf islands. No preventative diplomacy was employed during this period of escalation‚ and Kuwait was invaded in August of 1990.more than 200 people lost their lives. In Vietnam war the total amount of casualties is more than 1‚800 million people

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    The Crucible The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a dramatic play based during the mid-1600s when the Salem Witch Trials took place. A group of young teenage girls accuse many of witchcraft even though it may or may not be true. Their accusations stir up a violent and unexpected outcome. There were definitely no small characters in this story. Specific characters such as Abigail Williams‚ John Proctor‚ and Mary Warren change the dynamics of this drama to increase dramatic conflict. In The Crucible

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    Some of the characters in The Crucible stay the same but a few of them change. To me the characters who changed are Mary Warren‚ John Proctor‚ Elizabeth‚ and Rebecca Nurse. They change from the beginning towards the end of the play‚ starting out to be innocent but then each of those characters start to change who they are. Mary Warren in the beginning is a sweet girl who would never lie to anybody‚ but towards the end she changed a lot by making a doll with a needle inside of it. Also‚ when she

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    As Henry James sees it‚ characters are only as interesting as their responses to particular situations. This is true not only in any piece of literature with a character but also in life. I following text is my exploration into characters and their reactions to situations in John Steinbeck’s‚ "The Chrysanthemums" and John Cheever’s‚ "The Five-Forty-Eight". Characters in both of these stories are full of passion and come alive in the text as you read them. It is this resurrection of the text to

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    The Crucible Essay The Crucible‚ written by Arthur Miller‚ takes place during the witch trials in Salem‚ Massachusetts. In the play‚ there are many dynamic characters including Abigail Williams‚ Reverend Hale‚ and John Proctor. Throughout the play‚ readers determine whether John Proctor is a good man or not. Proctor constantly changes throughout the whole play. In the Proctor household‚ there is so much tension between Elizabeth Proctor‚ Proctor’s wife‚ and John Proctor. Proctor has committed

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